Cyberattack and proxy violence warnings as Iran threatens ‘nightmare’ revenge against US

Iran “will still try to avoid provoking an all-out war, but it will be challenging for them to retaliate in a way that allows them domestically to save face without at the same time triggering some sort of military response,” Aniseh Tabrizi, a Middle East research fellow and Iran expert at London’s Royal United Services Institute, told CNBC on Monday. She noted that with an economy buckling under American sanctions and a military far less equipped than that of the U.S., the country is not in the position economically or militarily to fight a conventional war.